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by 5hoom 5433 days ago
Your finding the articles less interesting could be a function of you becoming more knowledgable yourself, therefore there is less "low hanging fruit" with regards to new knowledge for you to acquire.

Might be a sign that it's time for you to start posting some well-writen commentary yourself ;)
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djcapelis 5433 days ago
Dude mkelly has known why a[5] and 5[a] were the same damn thing since before there was an HN. Stop making bad assumptions, he's telling a true story. I'm sorry to see him leave just as I realized he was here. Oh well.

He's not the only one saying these things. It's just how it is. After awhile, what was is no more. HN stood longer than most.

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djcapelis 5433 days ago
I'm sorry, but I'm happy to get voted down for my tone for once. I remember a time when one could assume that people around HN had a basic CS education and the community didn't get fascinated by stack overflow threads about how C works because we were all thinking about crazy interesting things.

I think anyone who says that people don't have a right to miss that and assumes that there is no problem is part of the problem.

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mkelly 5433 days ago
This is a very good point.

I'm this is true to some extent, but (as much as I'd love to wholeheartedly agree with you), the reason I don't consider this likely is this: the main reason I have this opinion of HN is because of one 3-month period in 2009, where I was off the grid (bought a car in Europe, drove around, drank lots of booze, smoked some mushrooms, &c). I assure you I didn't learn about computers during that time. When I left in June, I thought HN was full of insightful articles and comments; when I returned in September, I thought it was markedly worse. I think HN had its Eternal September then, and it's been steadily downhill since then.

(Um, yes, I was keeping track of replies, and logged back in to post this. Mea culpa.)

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5hoom 5433 days ago
My apologies if my post sounded disrespectful in any way though.

I wrote my post from the perspective of being a long time lurker on various tech forums who is only just beginning to feel I may be able to contribute on some topics (and only after many years of coding, reading & sponge-learning from sites like this one).

If it weren't for stories like this & people like yourself engaged in insightful discussion about them I personally would have missed a lot of "assumed knowledge" in the developer world, heck I wouldn't have heard of K&R (the shame!).

So I guess what I'm saying is: please don't leave, stay & help make us noobs less ignorant!

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